Making Mats Out Of Plastic Milk Bags

Two dufferin peel csdb students demonstrate how to weave recycled milk bags into useful sleeping mats for victims of tragedy worldwide.

Making mats out of plastic milk bags.

Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats. They had an overabundance o. I made several of these mats for a non profit organization called suitcases for africa. How to make a floor mat out of plastic bags.

The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. This is a video of how to make a crochet mat with plastic milk bags.

Continue to tie ends of the cords close to each other on. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Tie the bags at each end until the cords are slightly over the desired length of. Tie one end of the cord to a mop handle.

One quarter to one third of the bags that are used to make a mat have to be strung on the loom before the weaver can start weaving. I first heard about it when i was talking with some women at a local coffee group. Making milk bag mats.